Police just executed an unarmed 17 yr old brotha (shot 10 times)

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Op-Ed: Killer Mike on the Problems Underlying the Chaos in Ferguson

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"This week I have seen tanks, rubber bullets and tear gas used by police against the citizens that pay them."

I have searched all night and day for new and better words that could express my feelings and fear for the people of this country. I found no new words. I have no hope-filled insight to deliver. I only have this warning to all Americans: Whatever this country is willing to do to the least of us, it will one day do to us all.

The police are paid by the public and carry a public trust, and they take an oath to protect us as citizens. The police have lost sight of that and must be reminded that we pay them to protect us, not to simply engage and cage us.

We trust police with the power of life and death and with that trust comes a greater responsibility to be better than the current standard of policing I see across America everyday. Being a cop must be hard. My dad was one, and never wanted any of his children to follow in his footsteps. Being a cop is often seeing the worst of the human condition and behavior. With all of that said, there is no reason that Mike Brown and also Eric Garner are dead today -- except bad policing, excessive force and the hunt-and-capture-prey mentality many thrill-seeking cops have adapted.

This week I have seen tanks, rubber bullets and tear gas used by police against the citizens that pay them. This is not Egypt or Syria or Palestine, but today it feels that way. It feels as if death can come, without reason, from a uniformed government official and, if we do not press back against this Blue Wall of Silence and gang-like mentality of our local police, we all are in danger. Whether it is illegal rd stops & checkpoints, where your rights are being violated -- through being forced to answer questions that the 5th Amendment protects you from, or illegal stop-and-frisk that the 4th Amendment is designed to protect you from -- all of our rights are violated and in danger when any American's rights are violated.

I have chimed in about the brutality that killed this child, Michael Brown, and Eric Garner, and so many others. It's shameful, but these are not simply words to commiserate; these words, I hope, serve as a wake-up call to all Americans. Our rights are being violated by people we pay daily. This must end, or every American has failed.



The police have the power of life and death in their decisions -- they need to know that Americans hold them to a higher standard than these examples, of American men laying lifeless like deer. Slaughtered hogs in the street.

Today, it is just a guy in the news that a corrupt, pathetic police chief tried to slander by leaking a tape. Tomorrow it could be you for not moving fast enough when a siren screams. Or your child, because he or she protest something they see as unfair. As an American today I simply say: Enough! My rights are precious, and I value those provided to me through the United States Constitution so much. I will never take a day off policing the people we pay and keep a public trust with. I will use my camera, my pen, my pad and my network to do my part, to make sure that American will no longer fear their government. or it's employees. They work for us -- not the other way around.

Support these victims. On the day they were murdered by rogue officers, all of our rights drained onto that hot concrete along with that child's blood. Government should fear the people, not the other way around. Salutes and love to all, from a fellow American.

Killer Mike is one-half of rap duo Run The Jewels and a solo artist with four full-length albums to his name, the most recent of which, R.A.P. Music, was released in 2012.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/n...the-problems-underlying-the-chaos-in-ferguson
 
My nigga... if u dont get all the way the fuck outta here with this bullshit. I'm not clicking that shit. Fuck Bill O'Reilly and fuck you for posting his shit.
 
Ferguson PD Confirms That Wilson Shot At Brown As He Ran Away

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/...s-Officer-Wilson-Shot-at-Brown-as-He-Ran-Away


Assists are always welcome.

Ahhh yes the perverbial white flag

I see they are ready to throw officer Wilson under the bus

Is it economic pressure?, media pressure? The resilience of protestors? ORRRR VIEW ABOUT TO SURFACE SHOWING THE ENTIRE SHOOTING?

a little weird they would admit the officer shot at brown while he was running away but not the key point they keep insisting the officer sustained an injury lmaoo

Sure doesn't look like it on the video
 
Ahhh yes the perverbial white flag

I see they are ready to throw officer Wilson under the bus

Is it economic pressure?, media pressure? The resilience of protestors? ORRRR VIEW ABOUT TO SURFACE SHOWING THE ENTIRE SHOOTING?

a little weird they would admit the officer shot at brown while he was running away but not the key point they keep insisting the officer sustained an injury lmaoo

Sure doesn't look like it on the video

If this is true, IMO it means that the Feds are serious, Ferguson knows it, and they are trying to stay WAY clear of being charged with obstruction of justice. Federal prosecutions make bitches out of everyone.
 
My nigga... if u dont get all the way the fuck outta here with this bullshit. I'm not clicking that shit. Fuck Bill O'Reilly and fuck you for posting his shit.

:smh:

Breh..... Might be time to add one more to the ignore list

These niggas is showing they complete ass I swear

I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....
 
If this is true, IMO it means that the Feds are serious, Ferguson knows it, and they are trying to stay WAY clear of being charged with obstruction of justice. Federal prosecutions make bitches out of everyone.

Trust me bruh I know lmaoo

ferguson PD bout to get bitch slapped to high hell.. Feds bout to dig all in their shit
 
Dog I keep telling y'all the ONLY PEOPLE reporting that the officer had a broken orbital bone is that one asshat Jim Hoft @ Gateway Pundit. He even got fix news caught up in his BULLSHIT and they running with it like it's fact. Everybody got these unnamed unconfirmed close to the situation sources but nobody coming forward to say anything publicly. If there was truly anything Michael did wrong at the time of his EXECUTION it would have come out on day one. These mufuccas have been getting their stories together from the jump and even still u can see right thru it

I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....
 

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:smh:

Breh..... Might be time to add one more to the ignore list

These niggas is showing they complete ass I swear

I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....

Had to get rid of alot of people off my facebook page.......most of them are former classmates :smh::smh::smh:
 
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Nice little piece written by a peer from undergrad.

In undergrad, I drove a '92 Ford Taurus that just hulked, tank-like, up and down the streets of Berkeley. The thing was conspicuous, an ocean liner. I was pulled over all the time, once or twice a week at one point. Often I'd see a squad car following me and just pull to the curb to get it over with. An officer would walk up to the car, one hand on that little button that secures the strap over his gun. He'd ask for my license and registration. Some inner voice would remind me that this was the time to point out I'd done nothing wrong; I'd ask for a badge number, I'd take a stand. But black boys are supposed to know better.

So what I would do was: I would slip my college ID over my driver's license. The officer's eyes would light up. Not your college ID, he would say, amused. Then he would go back to his car and dally a little, pretending to check on things, before handing my license back with some mock-heroic advice about staying out of trouble. The story ends right there. I remember feeling vague anger afterwards, although I was probably feeling something a lot closer to despair.

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Every time I used the college ID trick, it bred in me a kind of survivor's guilt, a guilt about a life that feels as if it's being protected weakly, through cowardice. Because what I was really doing was saying, Yes, some of us deserve to be shot in the street, but this ID proves that I'm not one of them. I used the little plastic card to secure my status as One Of The Good Ones[1], and I always drove away ashamed, always. At best, I was reducing my humanity—my right to not get shot by a police officer—to a giveaway received during freshman orientation. At worst, I was just delaying what is now starting to feel inevitable.

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Mentally-speaking, what happens when you hear about another unarmed black teen killed by police/police-like officers? For me, it goes something like this: First, anger, a kind of 360-degree, completely unfocused, completely diffuse anger; but since anger is a fairly cheap emotion it fades, and sadness settles in; and then I get that familiar helpless feeling you get when you realize what you're doing is utterly rote, almost Pavlovian, but you don't know how else to deal. To put it another way: For reasons I'm still trying to parse out, I've realized that simply mourning the deaths of other young black men isn't good enough any more.

I don't mean for this to sound melodramatic, because my emotions don't really matter; or, they matter less than a murdered black boy whose body was left in the street. But what I'm trying to describe here is something real, a sinking-in-quicksand feeling familiar to anyone who is tired of the terror—which is the only really truly appropriate term—police officers exact on young black men. When an unarmed black boy is killed by a police officer, again, and some loud-talking reporter is interviewing the boy's mother, again, and you can see his mother's shoulders slumped until they can't slump any more, and she's been crying so much she's gotten to the point of simply not bothering to wipe the tears away, and you watch her as she tries to look into every camera and speak into every microphone, and watch her as she suddenly gets the spectacle of all of this, and starts listing all of the good things her boy ever was, so that everyone can remember him the way she's remembering him right then, in that moment—when will we decide this is not okay?

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This is probably a good time to backtrack a little and talk about fear. To be black and interact with the police is a scary thing. The fear doesn't have to come from any kind of historical antagonism, which, trust me, would be enough; it can also come from many data points of personal experience, collected over time. Almost all black men have these close-call-style stories, and we collect and mostly keep them to ourselves until one of us is killed. You know how the stories go: I was pulled over one day and the cop drew his gun as he approached my window; I was stopped on the street, handcuffed and made to sit on the sidewalk because the cop said I looked like a suspect; I had four squad cars pull up on me for jaywalking. We trade them like currency. And it almost goes without saying that these stops are de facto violent, because even when the officer doesn't physically harm you, you can feel that you've been robbed of something. The thing to remember is that each of these experiences compounds the last, like interest, so that at a certain point just seeing a police officer becomes nauseating. That feeling is fear.

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We all know there's nothing necessarily wrong with fear, since it's just a really effective survival mechanism, and there sure as hell isn't anything wrong with surviving. Legitimate fear can save your life; it makes sense that many of us are scared of heights and rattlesnakes. But a constant state of fear, being afraid, makes you a special kind of tired, in the same way a bully or bad boss makes you tired. This is no real way to live.

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OK: Imagine you know of a guy who occasionally walks around your neighborhood with a gun. Imagine you don't really know this guy, so you don't know how he feels about you, whether he sees you as friend or foe. You do know that he holds his gun a little tighter when he walks past your house. You also know that if he shoots you, there's a good chance he'll get away with it.

That's how all of this feels.

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What I've seen of the Ferguson Police Department and their tanks, AR15's, flash-bang grenades, tear gas, laser sights, helicopters, and military-style detachment makes me believe Michael Brown was tired. Maybe he'd been harassed by a police officer before, maybe he was tired of being tired. So when Darren Wilson tried to bully him, Michael Brown said no. And maybe it was the "no" of someone who's been pushed around, which is a more beautiful "no," since it is so clear and absolute. That a police officer then shot him dead and left his body in the street is, historically, the kind of thing police officers do when black men stand up for themselves.

And so for the last week I've been feeling that helpless feeling. All that's left after helplessness is fatigue, right? Aren't we all tired yet? We know that what happened to Michael Brown was not a unique incident but part of a larger phenomenon—and that it will happen again, soon. Which means we know an even deeper truth: that to be black in this country means constantly paying a tax on your life. Some of us pay in dignity, some of us pay in blood. What I'm trying to say is this: Never again will I pay with my dignity.

is a fiction writer pursuing his MFA at Cornell University
 


Interesting video...especially considering he placed something on the counter before leaving (money?) before starting to walk out the store.

Haven't seen this video before.

:rolleyes:
 
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Haven't had to delete anyone

Did check someone though talking that foolishness

I been on alert though

Zero tolerance

What about black on black crime?

It has nothing to do with race

Michael Brown was robbing the store

Those are the main three narratives I get on my news feed on facebook...These are people who I was really cool in high school...:smh::smh::smh::smh:
 
My nigga... if u dont get all the way the fuck outta here with this bullshit. I'm not clicking that shit. Fuck Bill O'Reilly and fuck you for posting his shit.

c/s

No more of this dude, ok?

Attention=Money. Black people should not be PAYING him attention. SPEND your attention on things that benefit YOU.

The function of the sheets and masks of the KKK is now transferred to "political correctness". They push as far as they can to the edge, but never far enough where you can PROVE they're racist. That's how they operate. But fuck what they say, their actions speak far louder than anything they have to say at this point.
 
Dog I keep telling y'all the ONLY PEOPLE reporting that the officer had a broken orbital bone is that one asshat Jim Hoft @ Gateway Pundit. He even got fix news caught up in his BULLSHIT and they running with it like it's fact. Everybody got these unnamed unconfirmed close to the situation sources but nobody coming forward to say anything publicly. If there was truly anything Michael did wrong at the time of his EXECUTION it would have come out on day one. These mufuccas have been getting their stories together from the jump and even still u can see right thru it

I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....

smh, and what's so crazy, is public opinion is swayed by that shit because they've been hypnotized all these years through media to perceive white men as the good guys.
 
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